We're thrilled to announce that we have two films from our slate at this year's BFI London Film Festival!
The BFI London Film Festival is the UK’s foremost celebration of screen culture that invites audiences to engage with the finest filmmaking talents from our shores and around the world with screenings and events in London and across the UK with LFF on Tour. The LFF will present its immersive programme LFF Expanded, now in its fifth year, at venues around the South Bank, while LFF for Free - a fun, thought-provoking and creative mix of free events for audiences of all tastes - will also return.
See what films we have in this year’s lineup. Read the full lineup here.
KIM NOVAK’S VERTIGO is a lyrical and intimate portrait, blending rare archival footage with deeply personal reflections and vivid glimpses into Kim’s reclusive life. While Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo remains her most iconic role, the film explores how that performance - and the duality it captured - mirrors the ongoing tension between image and identity that shaped Kim’s life. As she revisits fragments of her past a deeper story emerges: one of defiance, reinvention, and the quiet power of a woman who walked away from fame to remain true to herself. Read more here.
LOVE: 13 October: Prince Charles Cinema, 18:30, 14 October: BFI Southbank NFT3, 16:10, 18 October: BFI Southbank NFT3, 16:15
Pulitzer Prize-winning Lynsey Addario has risked her life to capture the stark realities of war — from the Middle East and Afghanistan to Ukraine. From National Geographic Documentary Films and Academy Award®-winning filmmakers Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, LOVE+WAR chronicles Addario’s ascent in the male-dominated world of conflict photography. But her work is dangerous. She’s been kidnapped twice while on assignment in war zones — a cost she must wrestle with each time she leaves her husband and two sons to go on assignment. Behind the camera, Addario is torn between her unwavering commitment to the essential work of journalism and the powerful, competing demands of motherhood, grappling with what it truly means to follow your calling when it threatens everything you love.
DEBATE: 12 October: Curzon Mayfair, 15:50, 13 October: BFI Southbank NFT2, 20:40